Lisa Hsieh Personal RSS Feed http://www.behance.net/inkandcloth http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Small-Works/96312 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Small-Works/96312 Sat, 31 May 2008 17:51:46 -0500 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Other-Small-Works/96317 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Other-Small-Works/96317 Sat, 31 May 2008 18:11:43 -0500 Consumers are mesmerized by the ideal that happiness and satisfaction can only be fulfilled through material acquisitions; corporate and media giants only perpetuating that illusion. One subconsciously spends his whole life building upon this myth - buying, wearing, using, and trashing, then repeating the cycle all over again, in the hopes of presenting an image of him that he wishes himself to be. The U.S. consumer is an exhibitionist. This is a phenomenon of consumption propelled by Capitalism. By collecting images from popular periodicals, I have the components of rendering portraits of typical modern-day life. I paint abstract moments that occur in one’s mind during the process of making choices in a market place as a consumer; to capture the moment of suspended contemplation when one begins connecting the purchase of an item to a promise of a better quality of life. These moments are dreamlike, rendered by the large pools of poured acrylic paint onto the surfaces. They are spaces that one’s subconscious retreats to when, for a few seconds, one is disconnected from reality and has drifted into a cloud of imagination and hope â€" all inspired by a man-made product. Essentially, material acquisition is a means of identity construction. The drive of consumerism is the human desire for improvement and prosperity. The correlation of objects in life and the memories and meanings they therefore represent will always be of interest to me. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/2007/57964 Consumers are mesmerized by the ideal that happiness and satisfaction can only be fulfilled through material acquisitions; corporate and media giants only perpetuating that illusion. One subconsciously spends his whole life building upon this myth - buying, wearing, using, and trashing, then repeating the cycle all over again, in the hopes of presenting an image of him that he wishes himself to be. The U.S. consumer is an exhibitionist. This is a phenomenon of consumption propelled by Capitalism. By collecting images from popular periodicals, I have the components of rendering portraits of typical modern-day life. I paint abstract moments that occur in one’s mind during the process of making choices in a market place as a consumer; to capture the moment of suspended contemplation when one begins connecting the purchase of an item to a promise of a better quality of life. These moments are dreamlike, rendered by the large pools of poured acrylic paint onto the surfaces. They are spaces that one’s subconscious retreats to when, for a few seconds, one is disconnected from reality and has drifted into a cloud of imagination and hope â€" all inspired by a man-made product. Essentially, material acquisition is a means of identity construction. The drive of consumerism is the human desire for improvement and prosperity. The correlation of objects in life and the memories and meanings they therefore represent will always be of interest to me. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/2007/57964 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:08:11 -0600 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Latest-Works/89630 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Latest-Works/89630 Sat, 03 May 2008 22:53:17 -0500